| Show i HAS BIG STRIKE Tremendous Body of 01 ver Gold and Copper Ore Being Opened Up SHOOT TWELVE FEET WIDE NEARLY FEET OF STORING GROUND ASSURED A body of ore Is being opened up in inthe Inthe Inthe the Consolidated com corn property at Bingham that gives every promise of making a record breaker In the lead ead ore line for that camp not excepting the shoot that Is claimed to exist In the Kempton lode the title and right to mine which has ha just been decided In favor of the I United States company lafter niter years of litigation Until yesterday It was not possible to t get a single line Une on what was wag doing at the old by which title the property was wa known pre previous previous previous to Its acquisition by the present company something like six months ago But the story is none the less good for holding it and it will be par particularly particularly particularly gratifying to the Butte con contingent contingent contingent which Is ia so largely Interested In the enterprise At a distance of feet in and about feet vertically lly beneath the surface the streak of talc tale and other mineral matter was cut in the drift that was being pushed ahead That was several days ago Ore began to appear and a week weak or so ago there was a breast of it that averaged 21 per cent lead and about 10 ounces silver with small smaIl values in gold and copper and anda a fine excess of iron Sunday at which time tho the ore oro had been followed In for sixty feet there was twelve feet of fine milling rock such as described above and eighteen inches of solid ga galena galena galena lena that had not been assayed but which according to the records ob obtained obtained tamed in old shallow workings ought to run from 40 to 50 per cent lead 20 O Oto to 30 ounces silver some gold some copper and an iron excess over silica This drift is being crowded ahead by Manager George A Bellinger with ma machine machine chine drills manned by old Butte miners of experience and as every foot Is showing up better all the experts of the camp who know the formation and know how such bodies of ore are made are predicting as a result of their ob observations observations that it is going to outrank the best of them and continue to un untold untold untold told depths To get directly under a ashoot ashoot ashoot shoot of similar ore that is exposed for a width of twelve feet In work workIngs workings workIngs Ings feet above the present drift will have to be extended feet The present strike therefore makes it ap apparent apparent apparent parent that the shoot is a great deal longer and a great deal thicker than it was above In the upper workings there is twelve feet of milling ore and eighteen inches of Below the same conditions prevailed on Sun Sunday Sunday Sunday day with everything to indicate that by b the time the drift had reached a point directly under the upper workings workIngs work workIngs Ings there might be anywhere an where from twenty to thirty feet In width Local experts and mine managers of Bingham have been silently dropping into the mine for the past pa t several days da s sas as the management was willing to ad admit admit admit mit them and it is 18 I now apparent that very every one of them has caught the fever that Inevitably accompanies an exam examination examInation of a big bis thing by men able to appreciate its magnitude whether they happen to be personally pers nally Interested or not There is already about oo feet of ground assured a in this splendid splendid splendid did shoot of ore and there is yet no telling how much longer and wider It will vill prove to be below nor how much deeper it will extend into the earth but everY overy expert says it is in the right formation and is making right to con continue continue to greath depth It is one more bonanza for Bingham |
